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Ruth Ebenstein is an American-Israeli journalist, historian, public speaker and peace activist. She is penning a memoir, Bosom Buddies: How Breast Cancer Fostered an Unexpected Friendship Across the Israeli-Palestinian Divide. Ruth has published her shorter writing on both sides of the Atlantic and won two first-place Simon Rockower awards, sponsored by the American Jewish Press Association. Her writing has appeared in the Atlantic, the Washington Post, TriQuarterly, the Los Angeles Review of Books, WomansDay.com, Tablet, the Forward, Stars and Stripes, Education Week, Entropy, Brain, Child, NewSacred.Org, and other publications. She has also penned a children’s book, All of this Country is Called Jerusalem. Find her online at ruthebenstein.com, on Facebook at Laugh Through Breast Cancer – Ruth Ebenstein, and on twitter @ruthebenstein.
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